Accolades & Awards

Highlights of Singapore’s Rankings from 2004 to 2008

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Information Technology Report (GITR) Ranking	2nd	1st	2nd	3rd	5th
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) Ranking	7th	5th	8th	7th	-
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Yearbook Ranking	2nd	3rd	3rd	2nd	2nd
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) e-Readiness Ranking	7th	11th	13th	6th	6th
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Benchmarking IT Industry Competitiveness	NA	NA	NA	11th (First ranking released in 2007)	9th
Accenture e-Government Leadership Ranking	2nd	3rd	NA*	1st	-

* There are no rankings for that year.

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Infocomm Rankings

World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Information Technology Reports (GITR) Ranking

Rank	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1	US	Singapore	US	Denmark	Denmark
2	Singapore	Iceland	Singapore	Sweden	Sweden
3	Finland	Finland	Denmark	Singapore	Switzerland
4	Sweden	Denmark	Iceland	Finland	US
5	Denmark	US	Finland	Switzerland	Singapore
6	Canada	Sweden	Canada	Netherlands	Finland
7	Switzerland	Hong Kong	Taiwan	US	Netherlands
8	Norway	Japan	Sweden	Iceland	Iceland
9	Australia	Switzerland	Switzerland	UK	Korea
10	Iceland	Canada	UK	Norway	Norway

Source: World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Reports

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) e-Readiness Ranking

Rank	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1	Denmark	Denmark	Denmark	Denmark	US
2	UK	US	US	US	Hong Kong
3	Sweden	Sweden	Switzerland	Sweden (joint 2nd)	Sweden
4	Norway	Switzerland	Sweden	Hong Kong	Australia
5	Finland	UK	UK	Switzerland	Denmark
6	US	Hong Kong	Netherlands	Singapore	Singapore
7	Singapore	Finland (joint 6th)	Finland	UK	Netherlands
8	Netherlands	Netherlands	Australia	Netherlands	UK
9	Hong Kong	Norway	Canada	Australia	Switzerland
10	Switzerland	Australia	Hong Kong	Finland	Austria
11	Canada	Singapore	Norway	Austria	Norway
12	Australia	Canada	Germany	Norway	Canada
13	Germany	Germany (joint 12th)	Singapore	Canada	Finland
14	S. Korea	Austria	New Zealand	New Zealand	Germany
15	Austria	Ireland	Austria (joint 14th)	Bermuda	Korea

Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Benchmarking IT Industry Competitiveness 2008

Rank	2007	2008
1	US	US
2	Japan	Taiwan
3	S. Korea	UK
4	UK	Sweden
5	Australia	Denmark
6	Taiwan	Canada
7	Sweden	Australia
8	Denmark	S. Korea
9	Canada	Singapore
10	Switzerland	Netherlands
11	Singapore	Switzerland
12	Netherlands	Japan
13	Finland	Finland
14	Norway	Norway
15	Ireland	Ireland

Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit

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e-Government Rankings

Accenture e-Government Customer Service Maturity Ranking

Rank	2003	2004	2005	2007
1	Canada	Canada	Canada	Singapore
2	Singapore	Singapore	US	Canada
3	US	US	Denmark	US
4	Denmark	Australia	Singapore (joint 3rd)	Denmark
5	Australia	Denmark (joint 4th)	Australia	Sweden

Source: Accenture e-Government Leadership Reports
Note: Accenture did not rank the economies in 2006.

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Overall Competitiveness

World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) Ranking

Rank	2003	2004	2005	2007
1	US	US	US	US
2	Finland	Finland	UK	Switzerland
3	Denmark	Denmark	Denmark	Denmark
4	Switzerland	Switzerland	Switzerland	Sweden
5	Sweden	Singapore	Japan	Germany
6	Germany	Germany	Finland	Finland
7	Singapore	Sweden	Germany	Singapore
8	Hong Kong	Taiwan	Singapore	Japan
9	UK	UK	Sweden	UK
10	Japan	Japan	Hong Kong	Netherlands

Source: World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Reports
Note: The WEF revised its methodology for the 2007 GCI. The WEF also rebased the 2006 rankings using the revised methodology so that economies can compare their progress between the 2006 and 2007 results. The WEF did not do similar rebasing for the GCI rankings prior to 2006.

International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness
Yearbook Ranking

Rank	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1	US	US	US	US	US
2	Singapore	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Singapore	Singapore
3	Canada	Singapore	Singapore	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
4	Australia	Iceland	Iceland	Luxembourg	Switzerland
5	Iceland	Canada	Denmark	Denmark	Luxembourg
6	Hong Kong	Finland	Australia	Switzerland	Denmark
7	Denmark	Denmark	Canada	Iceland	Australia
8	Finland	Switzerland	Switzerland	Netherlands	Canada
9	Luxembourg	Australia	Luxembourg	Sweden	Sweden
10	Ireland	Luxembourg	Finland	Canada	Netherlands

Source: International Institute for Management Development World Competitiveness Yearbooks

World's Top Services Locations

2007 Rank	Economy
1	India
2	China
3	Malaysia
4	Thailand
5	Brazil
6	Indonesia
7	Chile
8	Philippines
9	Bulgaria
10	Mexico
11	Singapore

Source: A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index 2007

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Ease of Doing Business

World's Easiest Place to Do Business

Rank	2007	2008	2009
1	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore
2	New Zealand	New Zealand	New Zealand
3	US	US	US
4	Canada	Hong Kong, China	Hong Kong, China
5	Hong Kong, China	Denmark	Denmark
6	UK	UK	UK
7	Denmark	Canada	Ireland
8	Australia	Ireland	Canada
9	Norway	Australia	Australia
10	Ireland	Iceland	Norway

Source: World Bank Report: "Doing Business 2009"

Top 20 Business Environments

Rank	Country	Total Score
1	Denmark	8.77
2	Canada	8.75
3	US	8.59
4	Finland	8.59
5	Hong Kong	8.58
6	Singapore	8.58
7	Netherlands	8.57
8	UK	8.57

Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit, in its Business Environment Ranking (2006-2010)